Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-21
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BILL NYE CALLS ON JAY GOULD.

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BILL NYE CALLS ON JAY GOULD.
Facial neuralgiais is what is keeping
Jay Gould back this fall and prevent
ing him from making as much mon
ey as he would otherwise. With
good health and his presents methods
of doing business, Mr.. Gould could,
in few years be beyond the reach
Of want, but he is up so much of
nights with his face that he has to
keep one gasjet burning all the time.
Besides he has cabled once to DIR.
Brown-Sequard for a neuralgia pill
that he thought would relieve the in
tense pain, and found after he had
paid for the cablegram that every
druggist in New York kept the
BroWn-Sequard pill in stock. But
when man is ill he does not care for
expense, especially when he controls
an Atlantic cable or two.
This neuralgia pill is about the size
ola two-year-old colt and pure white.
I have been compelled to take sew
eral of them myself while suffering
from facial neuralgia, fer@neafalgias
does not spare the good, the true or
the beautiful. She comes along and
nips the poor yeoman as we'll as the
millionaire who sits in the lap of
luxury. Millionaires who flatter
themselves that they can evade neu-
ralgia by going and sitting in the
lap of luxury make great mistake.
"And do you find that this large
porcelain pill relieves you at all, Mr.:
Gould ?" I asked him during one of
these attacks, as he sat in his studio
with his face tied up in hot bran.
mo, it does me no good Whatev-
err" said the man who likes to take a
lame railroad and put it on its feet by
issuing more bonds. 1T contains a
little morphine, which dulls the pain,
but there's nothing in the pill to cure
the cause. My neuralgia comes from
indigestion. My appetite is four
sizes too large for a man of my height
and every little while over eat. I
then get dangerously i'll and stocks
become greatly depressed in conse-
quence. 1 am now in position
where, if had a constitution that
would stand the strain, l could get
we'll off in few years, but l am not
strong enough. Every little change
of the Weather affects me. see
red-headed girl on the street and i'm
mediately afterwards I see one OF
these big white pills"
"Are you sure, Mr.. Gould?" |
asked him with some solicitude, as I
bent forward and inhaled the rich
fragrance of the carnation in his but
ton-hole, "that you have not taken
cold in some way ?"
"Possibly I have" he said, as he
shrank back in a petulant way, 1
thought. "Last week 1 got my feet
little damp while playing the hose
on some of my stocks, but hardly
think that was what caused the
trouble. 1 am apt to overeat, as l
said, I am especially fond of fruit,
too. When I was boy l had no
trouble, because I always divided
my fruit with another boy, of whom
was very fond. I would always
divide my fruit into two equal parts,
keeping one of these and eating the
other myself. Many and many a
time when this boy and I went out
together and only had one wormy
apple between us, I have divided it
and given him the worm.
"As a boy, / was taught to believe
that half is always better than the
hole"
"And are you not afraid that this
neuralgia after it has picnicked
s.ound among your features may tiy
to your vitals?"
"Possibly so," said Mr.. Gould,
swapping the hunting case of his
massive silver watch with a loud
report, "but I am guarding against
this by keeping my pocketbook
wrapped up all the time in an old red
flannel shirt"
Here Mr.. Gould arose and went
out of the room for long time, and
l could hear him pacing up and
down outside, stopping now and
then to peer through the keyhole to
see if had gone away. But in each
instance he was gratitied to find that
1 had not. Lest any one should
Imagine that 1 took advantage of his
absence to peruse his private cores
pondence, will say here that / did
not do so, as his desk was securely
locked.
Mr.. Gould's habits are simple and
he does not hold his cane by the
middle when he walks. He wears
plain clothes and his shirts and COL
lars are both made of the same shade.
He SAYS he feels sorry for any one
who has to wear pink shirt with a
blue collar. Some day he hopes to
endow home for young men who
cannot afford to buy shirt and COL
lar at the same store.
He owes much of his neuralgia to
lack of exercise. Mr.. Gould never
takes any exercise at all. His rea-
son for this is that he sees no prospect
for exercise to advance in value.
He says he is willing to take any
thing else but exercise.
Up to within very few years
Jay Gould has always slept well at
night, owing to regular hours for
rising and retiring and his careful
abstinence from tobacco and alcohol.
Lately neuralgia has kept him awake
good deal at night, but prior to
that he used to sleep as sWeetly and
peacefully as weasel.
/ The story circulated some years
ago to the effect that professional
burglar broke into Mr.. Gould's room
in the middle of the highland before
he could call the police was robbed of
his tools, is not true. People who
have no higher aim in life than the
peddling about of such improbable
yarns would do we'll to ascertain the
truth of these reports before giving
them circulation.
The story that Mr.. Gould once
killed steer and presented his hoots
to the poor with the remark that it
would help to keep sole and body to-
gether, also turned out to have no
foundation whatever in fact, but was
set af1oat by an English wag who was
passionately fond of a bit of pleas
antry, don't you know.
Thus it is that the man who has
acquired competence by means of
/ honest toll becomes the target for the
barbed shaft of contumely.
Mr.. Gould is said to be good con-
versationalist, though he prefers to
close his eyes and listen to others.
Nothing pleases him better than to
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